Word: townes
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...place has felt the pain of General Motors' collapse quite as completely as Flint, Mich., which is about an hour's drive north of Detroit. Back in the early 1970s, GM had as many as 80,000 employees around Flint, making it one of the premier company towns in the U.S. But as GM's fortunes have fallen, so have those of Flint. GM is still the largest employer in town by far, but its Flint payroll has dropped to fewer than 8,000. Meanwhile, the Genesee County Land Bank owns more than 4,000 vacant residential properties...
...union's top executive board, readily acknowledges that Flint is often held up as a symbol of crippling labor-management strife, but he sees the Volt investment as a significant milestone for the city. "I know you go just 50 miles west of here and they think the town is dead," Zuckschwerdt says. "But it's not. GM knows they have a very talented workforce here," he says...
...seedy little town,” observes set designer M. Amelia Muller ’11, “the bar is always the centerpiece, and it’s always a scummy bar.” Muller was able to accomplish this run-down aesthetic using the same brown colors that dominate the play’s posters. But the biggest challenge of “The Flies” for Muller was the scale of the production, which demanded five distinct sets...
...sweet when Rachel tried to present New Directions as a refuge, but she’s quickly finding it empowering that glee will be Quinn’s only sanctuary when Sue finds out about the baby. In related news, Terri and her awful, awful sister Kendra exploit small-town dynamics and bully the local obstetrician into performing a fake sonogram for Will to attend. “I’ve been a really crummy wife lately,” says Terri. O RLY? Sue and Schue eventually shout it out, and Will tears her apart...
...BUNGALOW New Jersey's funky beach town of Long Branch got a whole lot funkier this summer with the arrival of the Bungalow, BungalowHotel.net. It's a 24-room hotel with Technicolor public spaces courtesy of hip husband-and-wife interior team Robert and Cortney Novogratz of Sixx Design. Rooms have names like Aloha and Kahuna and are starkly white with cowhide chairs and kitschy flea-market posters. Pool, table football, board games and cocktails are found in the Bungalow Lounge. And while there aren't many amenities in-house, guests can pay a small additional...